NDR: GBCN/the other place

[mrsemilys]

I don't know but I love this community. I've been around for at least 5-6 years and I love keeping up with each persons lives as we have ups and downs. Not sure how people are finding us but I'm glad because it keeps things fresh. Last time I went to D&R on TN it was pretty sparse....posts with 1-2 responses over several days.

[IIOY]

Dec 8, 2013 1:58:57 GMT -5 @juno said:

Dec 7, 2013 21:05:27 GMT -5 @callmefia said:

As far as the D&R board, I think we get new posters from the other topics. I have been jumping around and read GP, ML, MM, and MMM. Sometimes I even read others. And I started on D&R, mostly after the migration. I think people refer others here (I may have, but only pretty random people).

Another strange thing.  I feel like I live a double life.  I would DIE if people IRL found out about my GBCN habit (if I have a friend or family out there, just keep pretending like you don't know I'm here, mkay?).  I saw my sister on TN once, and I pretended like that never happened and hoped she didn't realize I was there.  I hide as much of my habit as I can from DH (not very successfully).  I'd never, ever refer someone here.  I don't know why I feel so self-conscious about it.

Ditto to all of this, except instead of a sibling, I saw a friend on TK. I even responded to a question she had at one point, and she never figured out who I was. To the best of my knowledge, not a soul IRL knows I'm here, and I want it to stay that way, which is why I never post photos or too much personal info.

And not for nothing, this is my tenth year with TK/TN/GBCN. ::sobs::

[sailorgray]

I tried to quit after having DS1, but came back a few months later. My h travels, so it's nice to come here when I'm lonely. I often refer to "some girl n my message board" when talking to h or my parents. My IRL friends don't know, though. I tell them I read decorating forums, but that's it. My family all think the ornament exchange is the coolest thing my mil was asking all about you guys and thought it was nice to have "known" some if you since 2007. I still miss a lot of friends who left D&R.

[floridakat]

I've been missing from here for almost a year (they buckled down our firewall at work), but as of a few days ago I can access the forums again. I wasn't all that active a poster way back when, but I still feel like I'm coming back to old friends, LOL!

[bunnymendelbaum]

It is crickets over there!~
I'm having schadenfreude over it too because a friend of mine interviewed to work at TK and they were total bitches to her.

My IRL friends and family know I have "online friends" too. I WAH and am an extrovert, so I need people to talk to. Plus, y'all are awesome to bounce ideas off of.

I also have another private group of online friends local to where I had my wedding. We've "known" each other for 8 years now! Pretty crazy.

[sjh722]

Dec 8, 2013 11:25:09 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Dec 8, 2013 1:58:57 GMT -5 @juno said:

Another strange thing.  I feel like I live a double life.  I would DIE if people IRL found out about my GBCN habit (if I have a friend or family out there, just keep pretending like you don't know I'm here, mkay?).  I saw my sister on TN once, and I pretended like that never happened and hoped she didn't realize I was there.  I hide as much of my habit as I can from DH (not very successfully).  I'd never, ever refer someone here.  I don't know why I feel so self-conscious about it.

Ditto to all of this, except instead of a sibling, I saw a friend on TK. I even responded to a question she had at one point, and she never figured out who I was. To the best of my knowledge, not a soul IRL knows I'm here, and I want it to stay that way, which is why I never post photos or too much personal info.

And not for nothing, this is my tenth year with TK/TN/GBCN. ::sobs::

I am paranoid that a few people I know are on the boards. I don't know why. Even my Dad has a group of online friends, LOL.

[ktzmoh]

Wow it's been 11 years since i got started on TK (screen name on the norcal board was kimsansf - holla norcal knotties!). I didn't ever get into TN because I never owned a house and felt really sad about that for so long. But I have no problem telling people IRL that I post on these boards. Actually I guess I don't have to tell many people - my sister was a knottie (and is here on GBCN as most of you know) - her wedding was in one of the knot magazines even. And I've even met a good share of my IRL friends on TK. I met my best friend at a TK get together - and three others that have remained close friends for 10 years now. I met some of my favorite people in the world on that site.

[renna]

I've never been to the Nest/Knot website. I found the H&G folder here by doing a search a few months ago for something house-related (for ideas) and I just never got around to joining until recently.

I guess I am what you would call the new blood from somewhere.

[renna]

Thanks, Juno! I appreciate the welcome.

Yep, it was a Google search though I can't remember what it was for. Probably involving window coverings (which I have still done nothing about). I am a very slow decorator. Also, we decided to add a bathroom to the basement earlier this year so that ate up a bunch of the budget - but hey, beautiful bathroom! (We only had 1 before so YAY!)

[renna]

Dec 9, 2013 17:24:34 GMT -5 FormerlyRR said:

Dec 9, 2013 17:18:55 GMT -5 renna said:

Thanks, Juno! I appreciate the welcome.

Yep, it was a Google search though I can't remember what it was for. Probably involving window coverings (which I have still done nothing about). I am a very slow decorator. Also, we decided to add a bathroom to the basement earlier this year so that ate up a bunch of the budget - but hey, beautiful bathroom! (We only had 1 before so YAY!)

I would kill for a second bathroom. Even just a powder room. One toilet is the pits. 

It is so nice to have a second one now.  Our house is 90, maybe 91 years old now.  I could talk for a month about where are the closets?!

Our downstairs bathroom has the shower (no tub) and STORAGE CLOSET and toilet/sink.  Our old shower (that we used for 13 years) used to be a spigot on the wall of the basement with metal tubing hung high for the shower curtains.  It sounds weird but we kept it clean and that was how we bought the house and it WAS a "nice" shower as far as the pressure went.

Our first argument when we bought this house was DH wanted to put one of those metal ring things above our claw-foot bathtub in the 1st floor (only) bath and I said NO WAY.  It is a small bathroom (very small, not like magazines when they say "How to Decorate a Small Bathroom" and then they put a loveseat in there) so I knew it would shrink the space to have a shower up there so we went using the hacked-system downstairs for all those years.

Now when I take a shower, even still, I think "This is so nice!" and feel like I'm in a fancy place.  It is all tiled in the shower.  I should attach a picture.

[pitterwoo]

patience pays off renna! looks great